Galaxy evolution models are strongly underpinned by anchoring constraints made locally in the Milky Way. In this proposal, we aim to perform a pilot study toward providing a secondary local anchor in the form of a detailed mapping in element abundances of the stellar populations of the Andromeda galaxy, M31. Primarily, we will use NIRSpec

More than 10% of the barred galaxies with a direct measurement of bar pattern speed host a bar rotating extremely fast. These bars are generally defined as 'ultrafast'. We selected the ultrafast bars observed in CALIFA and investigated if the bar rotation rates were correctly determined. We tested the measurement of bar pattern speed obtained with

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a fundamental ingredient in stellar population synthesis models and for decades it was considered to be universal. However, the universality of the IMF has been recently challenged by detailed stellar population modeling of massive early-type galaxies. I this talk I will present our recent efforts within